How To Install acl.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install acl.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. acl.x86_64 is Access control list utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install acl.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `acl.x86_64`

This package contains the getfacl and setfacl utilities needed for manipulating access control lists.

We can use yum to install acl.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install acl.x86_64.

Install acl.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install acl.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install acl.x86_64

How To Uninstall acl.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the acl.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove acl.x86_64

acl.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/chacl
/usr/bin/getfacl
/usr/bin/setfacl
/usr/share/doc/acl-2.2.51
/usr/share/doc/acl-2.2.51/CHANGES.gz
/usr/share/doc/acl-2.2.51/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/acl-2.2.51/COPYING.LGPL
/usr/share/doc/acl-2.2.51/PORTING
/usr/share/doc/acl-2.2.51/README
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/acl.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/acl.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/acl.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/acl.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/acl.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/acl.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/chacl.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/getfacl.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/setfacl.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/acl.5.gz

References

acl.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install acl.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.